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- Title
An infinite chainmail of M<sub>6</sub>L<sub>6</sub> metallacycles featuring multiple Borromean links.
- Authors
Thorp-Greenwood, Flora L.; Kulak, Alexander N.; Hardie, Michaele J.
- Abstract
Borromean rings or links are topologically complex assemblies of three entangled rings where no two rings are interlinked in a chain-like catenane, yet the three rings cannot be separated. We report here a metallacycle complex whose crystalline network forms the first example of a new class of entanglement. The complex is formed from the self-assembly of CuBr2 with the cyclotriveratrylene-scaffold ligand (±)-tris(iso-nicotinoyl)cyclotriguaiacylene. Individual metallacycles are interwoven into a two-dimensional chainmail network where each metallacycle exhibits multiple Borromean-ring-like associations with its neighbours. This only occurs in the solid state, and also represents the first example of a crystalline infinite chainmail two-dimensional network. Crystals of the complex were twinned and have an unusual hollow tubular morphology that is likely to result from a localized dissolution-recrystallization process.
- Subjects
CHAIN mail; METALLACYCLES; COMPLEX compounds; CATENANES; SOLID state chemistry; RECRYSTALLIZATION (Metallurgy)
- Publication
Nature Chemistry, 2015, Vol 7, Issue 6, p526
- ISSN
1755-4330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nchem.2259